While I personally oppose the death penalty - not a deterrent and the risk of innocents executed, it is the law of the land until the US decides to ban the use of capital punishment.
I personally think it far worse to put a capital offender in a cell alone for life in solitary - "death by prison".
IMHO.
And i strenuously disagree with bending and obviating Due Proces of Law to political and media inflammatory postings. No matter the politics.
When we abandon the Rule of Law against One - it is obviated for All - and "They" will eventually come for each of us.
And yes - the RTM button is your friend.
Originally Posted by oeb11
as one who was beaten with a short hard wood baseball bat shaved flat on two sides,, leaving about a foot to the handle, a wicked instrument,
beaten by a 28 year old man who stood about 5'10' and weighed around 220 when I was 13 and weighing perhaps 70 lbs
who after maybe 30 hits as hard as he could muster with each hit knocking me over a coffee table he had made me bend over,
who then proceeded to grab my hair and lift me off the floor and pressed me to the cinderblock wall and with the hand that was entwined in my hair banged my head off the wall about 10 times
I agree with you
just as if we succumb to social justice, there will be no justice, likewise if we succumb to street justice, there will be no justice